Core plays and lineup construction for LoL (3/14)

We have a four-game, best-of-three LPL/LCK slate that is on March 14, starting at 3 a.m. ET. We also have a five-game, best-of-one LEC and LCS slate that begins at 12 p.m. ET. I’m here to break down my top DFS builds, as well as my strategy around what I’m doing for this slate. The building itself is especially important. If you haven’t had a chance, read up on the Esports 101 article.

I want to stress the importance of #hedgelife. Dive into this, as it is very important to my success in Esports.

As previously mentioned, my focus for this article is around my plan for these slates. I have gone into this plenty in the past, but I want to discuss #hedgelife and what this means. When I say hedge, I really mean that we want to have action on both sides of the match. I will provide a ranking of my favorite stacks, but just because a stack is ranked last, doesn’t mean I’ll have them in just one of my lineups. A few people have been lucky with game stacking in some of these slates, which means having both teams playing each other as your lineup. I do not recommend this approach, as it doesn’t often hit. Make sure to follow my Twitter for updates on starting lineups and any changes that I will be making as I research throughout the day.

Lastly, I want to touch on contest selection. It’s the most important thing to me and it’s the reason I hit big more often than not. A lot of DFS players focus on playing in contests with 35,000 people because it’s only $10 to enter and they feel it’s easy to win money. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a takedown and it barely cashed in the big GPP. Focus on contests with around 250-300 people, where you can max 7-10 entries. Use the #hedgelife strategy and max enter this contest and use the strategy in this article to profit. Trust me on this one.

Something else I wanted to touch on was the process. I’ve mentioned this quite a few times, but I thought I’d break it down further.

Contest selection

If you don’t follow me on Twitter, please make sure you do. On a nightly basis, I’ve been tweeting my favorite contests. Find a way to do 10 lineups and focus on contests with under 500 people.

#HedgeLife

I took a deep dive into this above, but here’s what I mean. If you do a 4-3 BLG-SB line, make sure you also do a 4-3 SB-BLG line. Do one line of four-man SB with SB CPT, then in your next line do a four-man BLG with BLG CPT. This covers you on both grounds.

#HedgeLife part deux

If you’re doing 10 lineups with five BLG stacks, make sure to do 2-3 DMO stacks to hedge that game.

Feel free to reach out with any questions. It seems like a lot, but it’s important to see what has made me successful in Esports.

LPL/LCK

Another nice five game slate for LoL for the LpL and LCK. Now for LpL, we have a couple aggressive teams versus teams that can set them up nicely. LNG gets OMG who are giving up the kills, but that’s where I want my four-man stack. However, it will get a little chalky. Now RNG gets JD Gaming and you can hedge this series as both teams are pretty solid. RNG just doesn’t give up deaths like JD so another four-man or two-man stack here. Suning and Team WE is also another series I want to hedge in. The deaths don’t pile up with these two, but I have a feeling this one gets bloody. For LCK, it’s very chalky and one sided for both matches. Hanwha and DWG are going to be favorites to do four-man stack, so you might want to keep it to two-man instead.

LNG

CPT Options

Tarzan
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Player Pool – All in Play

RNG

CPT Options

Gala (Main Option)
Cryin
Wei
Player Pool – All in play

Suning

CPT Options

SofM
Angel
Huanfeng
Player Pool – All in play

Hanwha

CPT Options

Morgan
Yohan
Chovy
Deft
Player Pool – All in play

DWG

CPT Options

Ghost
ShowMaker
Canyon
Player Pool – All in play

LEC

Prize pools aren’t the best for the Sunday slates, but I will go over my favorite teams to target. Misfits have treated me nicely two straight slates now and for Sunday they get Vitality. I will be running back to a four-man and two-man stacks of them. S04 get Excel, who had a major upset to start the weekend, but S04 has looked pretty strong. Exposure to them is needed if running multiple line-ups.  I may fade or have very little exposure to the SK/G2 match-up, as both teams have just been complete opposite of what we have been thinking – especially G2 so I would lean the SK side here. The juicy match-up is Fnatic versus Rogue. Fnatic loves to feed when behind, so give me all of Rogue (even after a disappointing Saturday).

RGU
MSF
MAD
SK
LCS

For LCS, it’s another solid slate with some good matches but same issue – contests aren’t that great. I’m running to back with C9 versus Immortals. They will be heavy exposure for me with four-man and two-man stacks. TSM and DIG are also high up there. They get opponents that aren’t as aggressive, but the matches could also be pretty quick as GG and Fly are also not as aggressive. Team Liquid is also up there, but more of a two-man stack for me versus 100 Thieves. It could be a hedge series, but the death rate for TL is just not up there enough for me to really like 100 Thieves as much.

C9
TSM
DIG
TL